Dothan/FX comparo

[Rudzer]

Its all good shame Dothan performance is "wierd" to say the least, while it "rocks" in SuperPI and 3dmark...take a look at the rest and most important real world apps

[Bennah]

Right...

My real world apps are games, photoshop, firefox, windows media player, nero, ms office mainly... Dothan does alright in them.

The price too is a real benefit.

Really you can only compare a Dothan to an FX not a normal venice or winnie...

[charlie]

My Dothan is down to 23.8s superPi 1M @ 3106mHz...

That's NEARLY the same as MEMESAMA's OLD 1M WR with a P4 EE @ 5.5gHz

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[TurboDiv]

Great results guys !

[zakelwe]

I would say that for air FX-55 would probably have the edge 2600v2900 , but as Juliette says Dothan walks all over FX-55 for bang per buck

K|ngp|n is putting up some good numbers in futuremark at present so it will be interesting to see if it will topple Fx-55 to get to the top.

I really must get off my lazy a__e and get one of thses for my gaming rig to replace my P4 northwood.

Regards

Andy

[justwOo]

How hard is it to mount a single stage phase on these? due to the ct-479 ?

[Mikesta]

Personally I am alittle suprised people are jumping onto the Dothan Bandwagon so fast.

Okay I know that the serious XS's out there are always looking at the cutting edge and have lots resources to spend but for the more average Joe, even those with money to burn should definately go the A64 route.

Right now the package as a 'whole' the A64 wins out.

The time really isn't right for Dothan. Don't get me wrong, when Intel ditch Netburst and move onto the Dothan successor for the desktop AMD had really better watch out. I really can't imagine how a Dothan with strengthened IPC (all the weaknesses tweaked out) would perform. If Intel wanted to it could make 2.8-3.0 ghz Dothan's as they are with proper heatspreaders at stock with an ordinary stock cooler and it would kickass. With the tweaks, 65nm tech, 800+FSB and unlocked lower multi's it would absolutely Monster/rape/destroy any FX. It would be easier to overclock consume heaps less power and run cooler to boot.

Maybe it would also receive some HT (is HT useful on Dothan I wonder?) for even better performance. I really can't see anything based on K8 competing even with 65nm tech.

But until then A64 is the better overall bet for all but the most Xtreme with money and time to burn. The newer dual cores based on Dothan look more promising and will bridge the gap alittle but still till Intel canvas an entire new system architecture A64 based will be the best bet. At that time this new processor may even recieve an onboard memory controller. AMD watch out!

[VictorWang]

Dothan is much better than A64 , except 875/865 platform
2.6G dothan 200*13, ram 200mhz 2-3-2-5 512m*2 , pi_1m=28.6sec

[charlie]

Actually i865/i875 are the best chipsets EVER for Intel. The ONLY drawback for Dothan is the lack of a board offering "crossfire" capability...
Dothan will OWN single card 3D Mark until everyone is running dual r520's...

Let me reiterate, my 3106mHz Dothan running non-optimal 2.5-3-3 @ 273mHz runs 23.8s, faster than Memesama's old WR with P4EE at 5.5gHz, AND beats OPB's new FX55 at 3500mHz.
Any questions?

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[Lithan]

Yeah Dothan Spanks in Spi. Go get me some gaming benches Charlie. My dothan looks like it'll hit 2600-2700 once I upgrade the cooling on it. Assuming my 948u ever gets here.

[type_a_positive]

Actually i865/i875 are the best chipsets EVER for Intel.
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I agree, and I really admire the Dothan. But I`m still getting an X2.....

Charlie, do you have any idea on the Dothan`s power consumption when running at 3 gHz?

[clayton]

Dothan has always been my favorite Intel processors. Can't wait for the dualcore versions XD
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